Tulsa Pain Consultants was recently featured in Tulsa World and News on 6 regarding Oklahoma's new law that requires prescriptions for opioid pain medication refills. Dr. Andrew Revelis of Tulsa Pain Consultants weighed in on the measure and discussed how the practice is helping combat the state's prescription drug abuse problem.
If you're a chronic-pain sufferer, you're not alone.
A new study from Gallup-Healthways shows that 31 percent of U.S. adults have some sort of neck or back condition that causes them pain, 26 percent have some sort of leg or knee condition and 18 percent have another condition that causes chronic pain.
Forty-seven percent of people in the survey said they had at least one kind of chronic pain (meaning they had either neck or back pain, leg or knee pain, or another kind of pain), and 7 percent of people said they experienced all three kinds of chronic pain.
